So Easy a Three Year Old Can Do It! Universal Robots: Come for the Safety, Stay for the Ease of Use

In the past 20 years, properly programming an industrial robotic or motion control solution required a well-trained person. During this time, robot and motion control vendors would pop up to brag about how much easier it was to program their products with the addition of setup wizards, the transition to IEC61131, or something else. Although these enhancements have made customers' and support engineers' lives easier, none of them offered an out of the box solution that could be used by someone with little to no training.

Traditional robotic and motion control solutions' configuration requirements are enough to make most non-programmers "cry uncle," let alone write a viable program. Inevitably with each robotic installation, an engineer would have to attend factory training, regardless of the format or programming language, to assist any non-engineer users.

Thankfully, designs for technology are now much more user friendly with graphic and intuitive interfaces. End users are no longer subject to studying - or keeping track of - an intimidatingly thick manual. Today, if you have the skills to use a smartphone, you can program a collaborative robot.

This method will allow the benefits of flexible automation to be employed as effectively by a startup or SME as it will by a Fortune 500 firm. This is the kind of thinking that is democratizing automation solutions, and it is the kind of thinking that will drive the next manufacturing revolution.

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